This article aims to understand professional insertion and the identity as sanitarist based on the experience of Collective Health alumni from UFMT-Brazil. The Sociology of Professions, based on Claude Dubar, was used to identify the meanings of professionalization according to the nuances of training and practices in the construction of “being a sanitarist.” Using qualitative research, 12 alumni working in Collective Health were interviewed, treated by thematic analysis. One topic focused on the profile, the forms/strategies of professional insertion such as invitations, indications, progression/relocation in the institutions where they already worked, approvals in postgraduate notices and selections with contract. The activities varied in commissioned positions, temporary contracts, statutory, and scholarship holders. Another topic addressed the identity perceptions built in the world of work in the public health network, highlighting the political-social component with a critical role, expressing the commitment of Collective Health to social transformation, improvement of the population’s life and health as a citizenship right and duty of State. The professional identity is built procedurally and the insertion in the work occurs through the mobilization of agents, leaving the engagement in the struggle for recognition guided by the Brazilian Sanitary Reform values and a solidary, fair, and democratic society. © 2024, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia. All rights reserved.
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